Facts Don’t Care About Ayn Rand’s Feelings

So tell the Alt-Right to stop stating their feelings as facts.

Andrew Cheng
The Apeiron Blog

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Facts don’t care about Ayn Rand’s feelings
Adapted by the author. Question Mark by Anemone123 from Pixabay. Photo portrait of Ayn Rand used for the first-edition back cover of The Fountainhead (1943), public domain.

In an interview with PBS, Donald Trump’s former Justice Department spokesperson Ian Prior said the following about critical race theory:

“We’re not about not teaching history. We’re about teaching history in an objective way that is not represented as America is systematically racist.” — PBS NewsHour. (2021, June 24).

I can’t help but notice Mr. Prior included the word “objective” in his declaration that America is not a systematically racist country. Most people of color would contend such a statement is patently subjective, the biased opinion of yet another white man who doesn’t appreciate how good he has it in the world.

Mr. Prior’s quote harks back to the teachings of Ayn Rand, who’d unironically coined her philosophy, Objectivism.

Translation: Hers is the only true philosophy. Ms. Rand once stated she would only recommend the teachings of “the Three A’s” — Aristotle, Aquinas, and Ayn Rand. (Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (1995). Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical.) Every other philosophy is complete hogwash.

Ms. Rand had a particular gripe against Immanuel Kant, whom she called “the most evil philosopher of all times.” And it had nothing to do with…

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